Welcome to Blackpast

Welcome to BlackPast

This reference center with 7,632 posts is dedicated to providing information to the general public on African American history and the history of more than one billion people of African ancestry around the world.  We invite you to explore and use all the resources of BlackPast.

Explore African American History

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Barbara Mae Watson (1918-1983)
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Lenny Wilkens (1937- )
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William Hooper Councill (1849-1909)
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Lloyd Albert Quarterman (1918-1982)

Explore Global African History

Sub-Saharan African troops in Egypt in the 19th Century
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African Military Slaves in the Muslim Middle East
Papa Doc and Baby Doc Duvalier
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Jean-Claude “Baby Doc” Duvalier (1951-2014)
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Hugh Ramopolo Masekela (1939-2018)
Bishop Samuel Ajayi Crowther
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Bishop Samuel Adjai Crowther (1809-1891)

Perspectives in African American and Global African History

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The Asian-African (Bandung) Conference: Fact and Fiction
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African Americans in Medicine in the Civil War Era
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Contraband Hospital, 1862-1863: Health Care For the First Freedpeople
Earl Whaley's Orchestra Over Shanghai, ca 1937
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The Black Pacific, 1919-1941: African Americans and Asia in the Interwar Period

Special Features & Resources

101 African American Firsts
Genealogy Resources
Major African American Office Holders since 1641
STEM Innovators

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